tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4963716884244220460.post7705102510347271683..comments2016-08-30T13:34:07.313-07:00Comments on JohnWShipman: Kai Lung unrolls his matJohnWShipmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00068611931289485917noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4963716884244220460.post-87565428193994237902010-01-25T00:04:19.474-08:002010-01-25T00:04:19.474-08:00The diybookscanner.org guys typically use digital ...The diybookscanner.org guys typically use digital cameras and commercial OCR software like Abbyy Fine Reader or Omnipage. No spine cracking needed, and it's a whole heck of a lot easier than typing the whole thing in.bbothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16749016348338381812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4963716884244220460.post-73627509791862589022010-01-24T20:13:50.772-08:002010-01-24T20:13:50.772-08:00I've never seen an OCR process that worked ver...I've never seen an OCR process that worked very well. Even with very crisp copy in a known font, error rates of 1 bad character in 20 are common; expect a lot of tedious cleanup. My book is ancient and yellowed, I would have to destroy the book to scan it, and it still might not scan at all in this condition.<br /><br />There's another factor: I enjoy typing. It's sort of like a dynamic meditation for me: I go into a flow state (see <i>Flow</i> by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi) and try to balance the conflicting needs of high keying rates and low error rates. While proofing the final section of this book, I found only about one error per page.JohnWShipmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00068611931289485917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4963716884244220460.post-86281858292506768722010-01-24T11:59:16.846-08:002010-01-24T11:59:16.846-08:00Any reason you couldn't use a scanner and OCR ...Any reason you couldn't use a scanner and OCR it in?bbothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16749016348338381812noreply@blogger.com